Chu Ying looked at Bai Yuhe, who was tightly wrapped and sobbing from a distance, Wang Qiyuan's hand digging the pit was also a little weak, and Aunt Wang looked at the hole that was almost dug and put a wrapped cloth bag into it.

"Yuhe, don't cry, don't go to the ground just after you give birth, this little doll can't be saved, don't forget to bury you now, there's still a child." Aunt Wang smoothed Bai Yuhe's back, and her eyes would be bad if she cried too much during this confinement.

Bai Yuhe knelt on the ground and looked at his second child, this child's life is not good, although he was born later, but he was already stillborn, so he could only bury her, if he could eat better and be tougher, maybe this child would not die, so that there is a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, how cute it is, but it is already very good to be able to leave a child in this famine year.

Wang Qiyuan helped Bai Yuhe up and covered the soil quickly, otherwise Yuhe would be even more sad when he saw it. Ye Qiu covered Chu Ying's eyes, "Don't look at it, go back, we can't help anything." ”

Although Chu Ying didn't want to see Bai Yuhe before, she still felt a little sympathetic to her heartache when she lost her child, no one in this world had a hard time, and after Chu Ying went back, she slowly began to spread fertilizer on the ground that had melted snow.

The seeds of safflower and bluegrass are raised, and the seeds of comfrey are harvested less, and it is more troublesome to plant and harvest, and the collection should be sealed, or the grass will not be used again if the grass turns black, so there is no comfrey.

Waiting for the middle of February, Chu Ying transplanted these seedlings with Ye Qiu every evening, and it was only one acre of land after planting, so she had to transplant the fruit tree seedlings that had grown taller than herself to the newly opened ground.

After digging a big pit and putting thick horse manure in it, then spreading some soil and putting fruit tree saplings in it, so as to increase some fertility, wait for the watering, and see that there are still three acres of land planted with wheat, which can be harvested before winter.

Wait for the safflower and bluegrass to harvest the seeds, and then the wheat field can be replaced next year. "We're almost done with the straw, let's start making it."

Chu Ying looked at the land in the west again, washed his hands and continued to work quickly, there were still some straws left before, Ye Qiu made those pieces, and when these were done, Chu Ying would go to find raw materials, maybe he could collect some more as before.

"Sister Chu, I really thanked you before, and Ye Qiu, thank you so much, I really don't know if I can survive without your help, Chu Ying, the chestnuts and rice you brought over are really a solution to the urgent need, and I don't know how to repay it." Bai Yuhe looks slightly thinner than before she had a child.

"I've done a good job this month, thinking that you have done some work before, and I'm okay at home, so I'll come over to help, which is a thank you for your kindness, if you don't dislike any work, give it to me." Chu Ying looked at Bai Yuhe's sincere attitude, with a smile on her face, and asked Ye Qiu to arrange some things for her.

"Chu Ying, this straw will be gone in a few days, or I will go to the villagers to collect it, if I release the news, I am afraid that there will be too many people as before." Chu Ying looked at Bai Yuhe rolling up his sleeves and stepping on the end of the tsubaki, he was really working hard, Ye Qiu waved his hand in front of him, Chu Ying came back to his senses, he was really afraid of this problem.

"You can stipulate which day of the month to collect, and let them send it to you on that day, and you yourself will see how much you can collect at that time, enough for a few days, so that the villagers can also have some income, and you will not be too busy and tired all of a sudden." Chu Ying listened to Bai Yuhe's construction and felt that it was quite feasible.

"Then you go around and tell the villagers, and then you can organize." Chu Ying couldn't do this to deal with the villagers, there were many people, and when it was noisy, Chu Ying felt uncomfortable.

"This ...... Good. Bai Yuhe thought that Chu Ying would only let herself do some chores, but she didn't expect that she would give herself such an important task, she had done such a thing to her before, but she didn't mind, she helped the Wang family several times, she couldn't be suspicious anymore, now that she and Wang Qiyuan have children, she no longer cares what will happen to Wang Qiyuan and Chu Ying.

Waiting for this side to be busy, Bai Yuhe went to a few familiar people to tell the news, and when he got home, he cooked and fed the baby, and went to bed early, and he would be busy tomorrow.

Because of this straw, the villagers have already cut back to their homes, and they all carried it early on the second day, and they all transported it, and Chu Ying's home has been here a few times, and it is easier to find, and after waiting for a while, it is still to change the grain, which is still 40 bundles of a liter of rice, but now the rice is so expensive, it can be exchanged for some is some, anyway, the straw is used to burn firewood, and there is no firewood to go to the mountains to cut firewood.

Chu Ying cultivated paper, looking at the orderly crowd outside, Ye Qiu, Bai Yuhe and Wang Qiyuan could do a good job of harvesting straw, and they could save some effort and concentrate on cultivating paper.

This is the day after the harvest, so that the raw materials can also be supplied, the whole process is also lively, plus Bai Yuhe comes to help every day, Wang Jiyuan also sent firewood to help Tsubaki beat the pulp, this paper project is much faster, every day can produce half a carriage of paper.

Waiting for half a room of paper, Chu Ying asked the black charcoal to pull it away, the yield was stable, and the black charcoal was also pulled like paper every 3 days. This paper business has finally stabilized, and Chu Ying continued to engrave when he was free.

Waiting for the middle of May, I finally carved out the commonly used words and put them in a large wooden plate specially made by Uncle Qi, which can be rotated, so that it is convenient to find words, and I carved the words myself in order to do movable type printing.

There is another reason why paper is not popular here, Chu Ying thinks that books rely on writing to make copies, which is more time-consuming, and it also costs labor, so books are more expensive, and the cost is about the same as a bamboo slip, and there is no advantage at all, except for the convenience of flipping.

If you can solve the problem of printing, this will naturally reduce the time for book production, which may be able to increase the sales of paper, but this is Chu Ying's idea, and she is not sure, but she is also idle, waiting to engrave all the words that are not commonly used, Chu Ying can start to try to print some things.

Although the words are separated according to the radicals, it still takes some time to fill a page, and it is not enough to engrave one of some commonly used words, you need to engrave more, so that you can make up the entire layout, Chu Ying only printed 20 copies for the first time, and it took 3 days to wait for the whole book to be printed, thinking about what computers and printers can complete in a few minutes, it will take me so long, I really worship the progress of science and technology.

However, every time it is printed, it has to be retypeset, and some commonly used books have to be repeated many times, so Chu Ying tried to engrave words on a whole wooden board, and then put the wooden boards of a book in a wooden box, so that when you want to print, you don't need to typeset a page by page, but this is only limited to commonly used books.

Because printing requires a lot of ink, the inferior ink ash left over from the previous zuò ink strips has been almost used, and some pine smoke needs to be burned, and the superior ones can be used to make ink strips, and the inferior ones can be used for printing, so that they will not be wasted.

However, the paper used for printing is best made of bamboo, brushed with ink, paved with paper, and beaten with a puff to make the effect is the best, and other hemp paper and straw paper will be some incomplete, hemp paper is better, and straw is the worst.

If you want to make a lot of books, this bamboo forest is indispensable, although the bamboo in your own house has grown taller, but you can't do much to make paper, and you have to talk to Lu Ming about it when you enter the city.